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Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s League party and former interior minister, has bad news piling up on him. Things have gone from bad to worse since he brought down his own government in an attempt to force new elections. It became immediately clear that the president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella, was not willing to facilitate Salvini’s...

Mugli Sofi, 70-years-old, has been waiting anxiously outside CentralJailSrinagar in Kashmir’s summer capital to meet her son, Rafiq, for several hours. This is the first time they would be seeing each other since Rafiq, 42, was picked up by Indian police during a night raid on their house on 28 August in the Danderkha locality of the city. “They...

Wikipedia suffered a global outage on Friday night after cyber attackers brought down the site with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. Users across Europe were unable to access the site for several hours. People in parts of the US and the Middle East were also affected. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From...

A woman is in custody after the lawyer who represented A$AP Rocky in his Sweden assault case was shot. The incident, which is not believed to be related to the US rapper’s case, took place early Friday morning of 6 September. Henrick Olsson Lilla was reportedly leaving his Stockholm apartment when a gunman who was lying in wait walked up and...

The British government should take back jihadists from this country being held in Syria following the fall of Isis, or face the possibility that they may become free to engage in violence again, the US Defence Secretary has warned. Speaking during a visit to London, Mark Esper wanted to stress that there were more than 2,000 foreign...

After two civil wars, multiple invasions and political assassinations galore, you might think Lebanon deserves a break from the greatest crisis since its last greatest crisis. But no – here we were this week with the Israelis claiming the Hezbollah were running a missile factory in the Bekaa Valley and the prime minister – the Lebanese one, not the...

Turkey’s president has suggested he was interested in obtaining nuclear weapons, adding to worries about the proliferation of atomic technology in the Middle East. In a speech to business leaders late on Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s longtime leader, questioned global arms-control agreements, saying it was “unacceptable” that his...

Clashes erupted in Kashmir on Wednesday after news broke that a student had succumbed to his injuries in what is the first confirmed civilian death since India’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s special status. Asrar Khan, 18, from Illah-i-Bagh locality in capital city Srinagar, was allegedly shot several times in his head, including his left eye, by...

An American woman is being held in the Philippines after she was caught trying to smuggle a six-day-old baby onto a flight in her hand luggage. The 43-year-old was preparing to board a plane bound for the US at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila when agents at terminal 3 discovered the infant in her oversized bag. The woman claimed she...

Ivorian police have detained 12 people as part of an investigation into the desecration of DJ Arafat’s tomb after fans opened the musician’s coffin to take pictures of him shortly after his burial, according to officials....

Fans of Ivorian singer DJ Arafat opened his coffin Saturday to take photos of the corpse, prompting police to fire teargas after an overnight funeral concert where tens of thousands paid tribute to the one of West Africa's most popular stars. Following hours of musical homage, tears, and solemn reminiscence at Abijan's main stadium, events took a...

DJ Arafat's coffin was placed at the centre of the football pitch Tens of thousands of fans of Ivorian singer DJ Arafat, star of the hugely popular musical style "coupe-decale" who died this month in a motorbike accident, gave him a spectacular send-off at the country's main stadium early Saturday. The overnight funeral concert at the...

Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries were more consistent with murder than suicide, an expert hired by his family has claimed. Lawyers for Epstein spoke alongside prosecutors at a court hearing on Tuesday. The financier died in his Manhattan prison cell on 10 August and a New York City coroner has ruled his death was a suicide by hanging....

Two women were escorted off an easyJet flight by police after repeatedly shouting and swearing at their children, with one of them overheard “threatening to break her son’s legs”. Fellow passengers accused the women of being drunk before even getting on the flight, claiming they had purchased a litre of vodka in duty free and drunk three quarters...

Italy’s opposition Democratic Party and populist 5-Star Movement appear to be on the verge of forming a new government in an agreement that would keep far-right leader Matteo Salvini out of power and reinstate the prime minister who quit only last week. The rival parties moved closer to forging an alliance on Monday when the Democrats indicated...

A decade ago, slipping into the OrientationHall on a wet Autumn morning at Oxford, I was relieved to find I wasn’t the only one late. “We’re working Indian Standard Time,” a voice whispered. “Fashionably late.” It belonged to a boy from Delhi. We both laughed at the inside joke that only people hailing from the subcontinent understood. “I’m from...

An Iranian bike-sharing firm has provoked fury after customers noticed it was not offering services to women and they were unable to register on its app. There have been reports Bdood, based in the capital of Tehran, had faced pressure from the police and prosecutor-general’s office to stop offering services to women or be in danger...

One minute, it was a wedding — nearly 1,000 guests packed under one roof, a thin partition segregating them by gender. Men shimmied to a live band, women spun to a DJ. Their invitation cards read: We celebrate “with a world of hope and desire.” The next minute, a suicide bomber walked into the men’s section of the Kabul hall and turned it into...